Matt L. Stephens

Tech marketing director. Dad. Retired national award-losing (and sometimes winning) journalist. Smash Mouth once blocked me. I 💚🎮 preservation. Tulsa native.

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

The outcome wasn’t what we hoped for, but glad I got to fly out to Colorado from NC to meet my dad for some needed father-son time.

[Corey Clayton @CoreyClayton]

Gotta love when a @Newsweek hack rushes to get a “Caitlin Clark trade to Sparks rumor” piece out for engagement farming, and forgets to delete their AI chat prompts from the piece.

#NowYouKnow @IndianaFever #WNBA

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

By the end of next season, Wemby will pass SGA as the best flopper in the NBA.

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

I have to watch this video just to see why they used @KyleClark in the thumbnail.

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

Ernie Johnson just talked to Tim McManon for maybe 5 minutes on Inside the NBA and it was the most informative ESPN has been in years. I know reporting and honest conversation doesn’t drive ratings the way screaming does but damn … I enjoyed that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. @DaleJr]

Kyle and I had a really challenging existence for many years. But we luckily took the time to figure out our differences and that was something he instigated with a conversation in his bus around how we each managed our racing teams. I was super eager for us to get on better terms. But it was he who made the effort for that to be possible. We did some media together also to laugh through some of the things we put each other through many years ago. Most recently we had even been discussing him running my Late Model at Wilkesboro this summer. He seemed extremely happy and we had planned to meet up next Thursday to get his seat to the shop. He laughed over the idea of his fans and JRM fans having to cheer in unison during that race.

Kyle was one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. No one can deny that. But he was also a father, a husband, brother, son, and a friend to many. My heart is broken for the Busch family. I will never be able to make sense of this loss but I am thankful that we had found a way to become friends.

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

But I thought Queens was never going to play another basketball season?!

[Scott Fowler @scott_fowler]

BREAKING: Queens will soon announce that basketball coach Grant Leonard has signed a contract extension through the 2030-31 season, a source tells me.
Queens had a historic season in 2025-26, making it to March Madness for the first time in its very first year of D1 eligibility.

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

One of the oldest stores in North Carolina is a family hardware shop in downtown Wilson, NC. It's outlasted the Depression, the mall era and a Home Depot.

I spent a recent morning inside to understand why a place like this can last when a big box store can't. https://t.co/5EeS3quB66

[Rory Roth @RoryRoth]

There she is - the mutant truck. Johnson Storage and Moving off Mulberry in FoCo

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

I skipped an all-time Hornets game and drove to Eastern North Carolina to watch history be made.

Wilson, NC is a baseball town again.

https://t.co/lhMUQIAahK

[Jaren Fritz @Jaren_Fritz]

Two GREAT opportunities. We’ve restructured our creative department to operate as an agency model, creating a unique chance to get in on the ground floor as we build Colorado State in this new era of college athletics.

Both roles offer the opportunity to work with our most visible sports, football and men’s basketball, while helping lead our student staff and contributing to high-impact creative campaigns.

APPLY NOW! ⬇️

Director of Creative Video
https://t.co/jN1gYng9I8

Assistant Director of Graphic Design
https://t.co/8BZqu7sZI7

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

I'm no CU fan, but this is literally just spring football. Happens everywhere. Saw this type of stuff at CSU all the time covering camp.

[College Transfer Portal @CollegeFBPortal]

NEW: Colorado QB Julian Lewis tackled a player during a fight at today’s spring practice.

Juju then gets up, claps, and screams “I love that shit.”

Coach Prime’s program continues to have fights daily throughout the spring… 😳

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

I’m hearing UNC leadership is considering Lou Piniella as the next head coach of Tar Heel baseball.

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

North Carolina has secretly been one of the best places in America to watch baseball for years, but our small towns are losing their teams.

This week's Main Street North Carolina: https://t.co/6vnjcCBoha

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

Chendall Weaver has had an incredible career. Crazy to think he’s been at Texas so long, he was teammates with Kevin Durant.

[Joe Giglio @giglio_OG]

V: Don’t give up, don’t ever give up

Will Wade: If you can’t win with a $10 million roster, lose three games by 25 points, can’t win a First Four game, realize you’ll never compete with Duke … give up and go back to LSU

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

@RoryRoth @CSUMGolf @CSURams No Rivals has a bunch of licensed golf hats like this but no CSU. Love that you made your own.

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

The gate was left unlocked at North Wilkesboro Speedway, so we walked in. Our first visit to
@NWBSpeedway amazed my son and me.

Here's the latest edition of Main Street North Carolina.
https://t.co/NwKeIFgsNz

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

Woahhhhhhh

[Charlotte Men’s Basketball @CharlotteMBB]

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 ⛏️

📰 » https://t.co/bj0UmvuHk3

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

Blowing Rock, NC has become one of the most popular small towns in America. But one place has been there for 40 years that helped make the town what it is.

My latest: The Last Man Standing on Blowing Rock's Main Street ��
https://t.co/XR38nYhH51

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

@K_McCall_IN But VCU isn't "The Premier Life Skills University"

[Matt L. Stephens @MattStephens]

High Point just gave Wisconsin a lesson in life skills.